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Arkansas Granny

(32,265 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:32 AM Mar 2020

Fox News is doing a lot of backtracking regarding Covid-19.

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Does their audience really have such a short memory?

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Fox News is doing a lot of backtracking regarding Covid-19. (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 OP

What else should you expect from cult of personality addled and servile followers of an autocrat. Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #1

They should be prosecuted for endangering human life. madaboutharry Mar 2020 #2

These people should be last in line if they get sick and need medical care. PA Democrat Mar 2020 #3

The outrage that this is a liberal plot is shared by millions of followers who fester in Doodley Mar 2020 #4

They think it could be a winning issue for Trump Johnny2X2X Mar 2020 #5

The arsonist who takes credit for putting out the fire MaryMagdaline Mar 2020 #6

They don't even acknowledge that they were wrong. They act like their past remarks were never aired. Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 #7

If the Republican-Fox news spigot had not lied to America in the first place Champp Mar 2020 #8

Thomas Hurt

(13,993 posts)

1. What else should you expect from cult of personality addled and servile followers of an autocrat.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:35 AM

Mar 2020

madaboutharry

(42,036 posts)

2. They should be prosecuted for endangering human life.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:38 AM

Mar 2020

They are sick twisted cult members. Notice how in the recent clips of them discussing the dangers of the virus that they all looked scared.

PA Democrat

(13,429 posts)

3. These people should be last in line if they get sick and need medical care.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:40 AM

Mar 2020

Their behavior has been nothing short of criminal.

Doodley

(12,079 posts)

4. The outrage that this is a liberal plot is shared by millions of followers who fester in

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:57 AM

Mar 2020

prejudice and hate, regardless of facts.

Johnny2X2X

(24,435 posts)

5. They think it could be a winning issue for Trump

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:58 AM

Mar 2020

That's the only reason. Trump wants to play the hero even though he's the cause. Watch them spin this for the next several weeks.

MaryMagdaline

(7,968 posts)

6. The arsonist who takes credit for putting out the fire

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 09:11 AM

Mar 2020

Arkansas Granny

(32,265 posts)

7. They don't even acknowledge that they were wrong. They act like their past remarks were never aired.

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 09:14 AM

Mar 2020

I guess it's true.

A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ("The Boxer" - Paul Simon)

Champp

(2,409 posts)

8. If the Republican-Fox news spigot had not lied to America in the first place

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Wed Mar 18, 2020, 09:16 AM

Mar 2020

they would not need to backtrack.

Hey Republicans: Try truth. It works.

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